Lawyers of Buffalo, WNY, Southern Ontario » Hamburg

Sawers & Sackel, LLP

Lawyers List Staff — Sun, 01 May 2011 14:02:38 +0000

Marjorie C. Fruscione graduated from William Woods University in 1991. She has appeared before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board since 1997, when she became a licensed claimant’s representative.

Atty. Paul B. Kornacki

Lawyers List Staff — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:59:44 +0000

Paul B. Kornacki, graduated from SUNY at Fredonia in 1984 and the University of Toledo Law School in 1994. He has been practicing law since 1995 and has limited his practice to representing injured workers at the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board since 2001.

Atty. Scott J. Bottoni

Lawyers List Staff — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:59:33 +0000

Scott J. Bottoni is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University. He has appeared before the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board since 1989 and has been a licensed claimant’s representative since July of 2000.

Atty. Roslyn Sireci Sackel

Lawyers List Staff — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:53:49 +0000

Roslyn Sireci Sackel graduated from Duquesne University in 1989 and the Pace University School of Law in 1992. She has been practicing law since 1992 and has concentrated on Workers’ Compensation Law since 1996.

Atty. Daniel T. Sawers

Lawyers List Staff — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:51:44 +0000

Daniel T. Sawers is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He has been practicing law since 1986 and has limited his practice to representing injured workers at the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board since 1996.

Atty. Robert M. (Bert) Villarini

Lawyers List Staff — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:31:31 +0000

Robert M. (Bert) Villarini, a partner in the firm, is a former Erie County Assistant District Attorney who concentrates his practice in Sports Law, Workers’ Compensation and Labor Law.
He has extensive experience in sports law, including labor arbitration/grievance, negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, injury grievance, workers’ compensation, and insurance disability. He was a member of the negotiating team for collective bargaining agreements in the American Hockey League, International Hockey League, and the East Coast Hockey League. He has successfully gained awards for clients in excess of several million dollars. He has represented players in the National Football League, National Hockey League, American Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League, Major League Baseball, Indoor Lacrosse and the Arena Football League.
Mr. Villarini is consulted regularly on issues related to player injuries throughout professional sports. He is the founder and co-chairman of the Professional Hockey Players Association Workers’ Compensation Panel and a member of the National Football League Players Association Workers’ Compensation Panel.
In 1994 he was awarded the “Lawyer of the Year” by the National Football League Players Association Workers’ Compensation Panel and in 1995 “Lawyer of the Year” by the Professional Hockey Players Association. Since1994 he has lectured regularly on issues related to professional athletes’ injuries.
In addition to assisting in the negotiations of collective bargaining agreements in the IHL and AHL, he helped organize the East Coast Hockey Players and negotiated their first ever collective bargaining agreement.

Villarini & Henry, L.L.P.

Lawyers List Staff — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:29:48 +0000

Daniel J. Henry, Jr., a partner in the firm, is a former Erie County Assistant District Attorney who concentrates his practice in Criminal Defense and Personal Injury/Negligence claims.
He has extensive experience defending the rights of people arrested and accused of criminal offenses both in State and Federal Court. He is one of a select group of attorneys in New York State certified to handle Death Penalty cases. In addition, Mr. Henry represents clients facing Grand Jury investigations; witnesses called before State or Federal Grand Juries; clients charged under the Federal RICO Statute; clients charged with white-collar offenses; professionals facing misconduct charges before licensing boards; Violent Felony offenses including homicides; DWI cases and drug offenses including conspiracy charges.
Mr. Henry is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has lectured for various professional organizations on Criminal Law topics and has published a number of articles involving the practice of Criminal Defense litigation. Mr. Henry also served as chairperson of the Criminal Law Committee of the Bar Association of Erie County, Buffalo from 1997-2000.

R.J. FRIEDMAN, ESQ.

Lawyers List Staff — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:00:02 +0000

R.J. FRIEDMAN, ESQ.
is also a native of Hamburg, NY. He is an alumnus of St. Francis High School, Providence College, and University at Buffalo Law School. R.J. worked as a law clerk for the office for seven years, through college and law school, before he was admitted to the New York State bar in 2008. His practice includes matrimonial and family law, wills and estates, adoptions, real estate, and criminal law. He is a member of the American, Erie County, and New York State bar associations, and he is on the Board of Directors of the St. Francis High School alumni association. He resides with his wife, Kelly, in West Seneca, NY.

Dennis C. Gaughan: Attorney & Counselor at Law

Lawyers List Staff — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:58:01 +0000

DENNIS C. GAUGHAN, ESQ.
is a native of Hamburg, NY, where he currently resides with his wife, Mary Rose, and his three children, Charles, Dennis Jr., and Joseph. He attended St. Francis High School, Syracuse University, and New York Law School and is a veteran of the United States Army Reserve. He was admitted to the New York State bar in 1984 and worked for the Erie County Department of Social Services before opening his own practice in 1990. The office moved to its current location in 1995. Dennis is the former Hamburg Town Prosecutor and Assistant Town Attorney, as well as the former Blasdell Village Prosecutor.

Dennis is a member of the American, New York State, and Erie County Bar Associations; he is admitted to practice before all New York State courts, the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals (Second Circuit), the U.S. Tax Court, and the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts.

Dennis’s practice includes bankruptcy, Social Security, criminal law, personal injury, divorce, real estate, wills and estate planning, family law (including child support, custody, and visitation), adoption, and DWI. He employs a staff of nine attorneys, paralegals, and secretaries who share over 100 years of experience.

Lisa A. Ball

Lawyers List Staff — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:53:57 +0000

Lisa A. Ball is the newest addition to Chiacchia & Fleming, LLP, practicing in the areas of personal injury, labor & employment and criminal law. Ms. Ball joined the firm in September 2007 as a law clerk and became an associate attorney in February 2009. Ms. Ball graduated, with distinction, from the University of Toronto in 2005 with an Honors Bachelor of Arts. She then went on to receive her Juris Doctor from the University at Buffalo Law School in 2008 where she was awarded the Robert J. Connelly Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy.

While in law school, Ms. Ball served as a contributing editor to the school’s student newspaper, The Opinion, and was a member of the University’s Criminal Law Society. Ms. Ball also participated in the law school’s trial team program, representing the law school at various trial competitions nationwide and receiving high accolades for her skills as an advocate. She now takes great enjoyment in giving back to the University at Buffalo Law School by serving as a coach for its trial team program.

A native Western New Yorker, Ms. Ball is of counsel to Sophie’s Club, Inc., a local not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing respite care opportunities for Western New York’s mentally and developmentally disabled, and is an active volunteer with Hospice Buffalo. Ms. Ball also currently serves as an attorney advisor for the Frontier High School Mock Trial Team.

Ms. Ball is admitted to practice in all of the Courts of the State of New York, as well as the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Erie County Bar Association and the New York State Defender’s Association.